Normally, press releases promulgating that so-and-so has “teamed up” with so-and-so, or that this company has graciously made this-event possible, go straight to the recycle bin. Because, really, who gives a #&@!? But this one gets a write up here because it means free sausage and beer for you. S.A.-based Kiolbassa Provision Co. has become […]
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Chalk it Up 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday Houston Street Free Artpace is expecting 20,000 people to come to Houston Street for the eighth edition of Chalk It Up. The beauty of Chalk It Up is that you can simply watch of participate. For example, there are dozens of chalk-filled buckets for anyone to start drawing […]
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International Accordion Festival Friday-Sunday, La Villita Free If someone put a slingshot to my groin and I was forced to create a list of downtown’s best festivals, the International Accordion Festival would make the cut, easy. In fact, I would put the squeezebox fest on the list slingshot or no slingshot. For starters, it truly […]
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Where there is fashion and martinis, there will be women. Where there are women, there are men. And that’s about as much deep thought I can wring from my brain today. Fashiontini returns to Valencia Hotel’s Vbar, 150 E. Houston St., at 6 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 6). $10 gets you in; a portion of the […]
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The application for the city’s River Walk vending program was made available today. People interested in selling novelty items on either private property or one of the six designated city-owned sites along the River Walk must apply to be eligible. Vendors will be selected via a lottery scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Nov. 17, at the […]
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Mat Kubo’s installation creates a kind of wrap across the Witte Building on East Commerce Street. Empty storefronts and boarded up buildings. No matter how depressing or decrepit they look, they do serve a kind of weird backhanded purpose. Mostly, they tell us where downtown’s at economically. When they are filled, they help identify the […]
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A lot has happened since District 1 City Councilman Diego Bernal took office in June. Council approved a $2.2 billion budget. Talk of a downtown grocery store heated up, then cooled down. And transportation plans and studies have whizzed by from all direction. And then there’s the matter of the name change from Durango to […]
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The Historic and Design Review Commission meets at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Development & Business Services Center (first floor), 1901 S. Alamo St. There are three downtown-related items. Here they are, with numbers corresponding to agenda item: … 2. IBC Centre, 175 E. Houston St. There could be more tenant announcements for the IBC […]
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Yes, people do live in downtown S.A. Just how many is up for debate, but I’d say there are a few thousand. And for them, the Downtown Residents Association is hosting a National Night Out gathering, 7-9 p.m. Tuesday night at the base of the Tower of the Americas at HemisFair Park. The event promises […]
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